{"id":391,"date":"2023-07-09T00:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:46:39","slug":"futures-command-integrates-transformation-efforts-across-army-multinational-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Futures Command Integrates Transformation Efforts Across Army, Multinational Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 For the U.S. Army to reach its transformation goals, it must ensure the innovations being tested and adopted in support of future readiness are also being seamlessly integrated across the force \u2014 a focus area for the Army\u2019s newest four-star command.<\/p>\n

\u201cArmy Futures Command has taken the approach that we will lead the integration for the United States Army, and the land component specifically, into all the domains that we\u2019re dependent on \u2014 air, land, sea, space, cyberspace, etc., a truly multi-domain approach, while at the same time looking at concepts for the future \u2014 with all those key partners that we need to work with,\u201d said Army Futures Command Deputy Commanding General Lt. Gen. Thomas H. Todd III.<\/p>\n

The command\u2019s strategic integration of transformation activities \u2014 from initial concepts and requirements onward \u2014 ensures the Army is achieving effective, sustainable and far-reaching improvements to how the force operates both on and off future battlefields.<\/p>\n

AFC is undertaking its integration work in myriad ways, including building new systems compatible with those of multinational partners, incorporating support mechanisms for modern technologies into training modules and long-term sustainment plans, and sharing critical lessons learned from groundbreaking science and technology research across all relevant components of the Army and joint force. The command executes integration activities in conjunction with its five other core functions: future operational environment, concepts, research, experimentation and requirements; these six functions support the command\u2019s ability to prioritize people, design the Army of 2040 and deliver the Army of 2030.<\/p>\n

AFC\u2019s Directorate of Integration is responsible for synchronizing integration across doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities and policy, while numerous downtrace organizations \u2014 including cross-functional teams, or CFTs \u2014 are engaging in integration-furthering activities daily. These efforts reinforce one another, enabling the U.S. military and its allies to more clearly see where strengths and weaknesses exist, and remedy any potential problems.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Army strategy requires a keen focus on integration, allowing us to hone in on necessary resiliency and situational awareness of the battlespace,\u201d said Mike Monteleone, director of the Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing\/Space (APNT\/Space) CFT.<\/p>\n

\u201cResiliency and situational awareness build confidence. Confidence builds speed. Speed builds force lethality. To achieve that end result, the Army must focus on integration at all levels,\u201d Monteleone continued.<\/p>\n

The APNT\/Space CFT was able to increase as well as observe stakeholder integration during its most recent Positioning, Navigation and Timing Assessment Experiment, known as PNTAX, held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, from August to September 2022.<\/p>\n

PNTAX, which brings together hundreds of military and industry participants annually, is the Army\u2019s premier live-sky, open-air GPS and communications denied\/degraded experiment, offering tactical scenarios informed by pacing threats. The experiment incorporates new and existing PNT and navigation warfare technologies, which Army and joint force participants can assess, develop and reassess in the most challenging and realistic environments available. <\/p>\n